When these people started to move, the Yuegong slowly approached the pier. After approaching the pier, people on the shore could clearly feel that this ship was claimed to be the most advanced, fastest, and most luxurious passenger ship in the country!
On the bridge of the Moon Palace, the captain asked the deputy captain to take charge of the follow-up matters of the berthing, and then walked towards the first-class cabin. He was going to personally send the first-class passengers off the ship.
After arriving at the huge living room of the first-class cabin, they were greeted one by one, thanked them for taking the Yangtze River Shipping Company's ship, and asked them if they were satisfied with the service during the trip and if they had any suggestions.
Although most of these passengers are rich or noble, they are very polite in their greetings to the captain. Naturally, they will not regard the captain of the Moon Palace as an ordinary crew member. This captain is a retired naval officer. This retired officer
He was a lieutenant colonel in the navy before.
It's just polite to say hello. If you're not polite, they won't be polite to you either. It's not impossible for them to throw you overboard directly!
So, it’s all a scene of hello, me, and everyone!
Many people said that this trip was the most comfortable trip in their lives, and they would take the Yuegong No. 1 next time if they had the chance!
These words also made the captain of the Yuegong and the people of the Yangtze River Shipping Company smile and look proud!
The Moon Palace is not an ordinary passenger ship, but the largest, most luxurious, and fastest passenger ship in the empire!
The ship's displacement reaches more than 800 tons, and its tonnage standard reaches the standard of the new generation cruiser in the navy. Although this tonnage is not the largest among many ships today, many ocean-going merchant ships now have a tonnage of five
There are also quite a few with more than 100 tons, more than 800 tons or even 1,000 tons.
However, you have to know that those ships are ordinary merchant ships, mainly used to transport cargo.
The Moon Palace is a purely passenger ship, its purpose is only to carry passengers!
Domestic passenger ships that are purely for transporting passengers are generally not large in tonnage. The largest ones in the past were only three to four hundred tons. However, Yuegong pioneered Xianhe and increased the tonnage to more than 800 tons at one time.
And it is decorated with extremely luxurious decoration!
The decoration cost of the ship exceeds the construction cost of the hull!
This ship is not only huge and luxuriously decorated, but in order to ensure fast sailing speed, they adopted the latest Datang schooner and asked Dingsheng Shipyard to specially design the ship type to ensure comfort while maintaining maximum speed.
Since the Royal Institute of Technology developed a new type of schooner, also known as the Datang schooner, this type of sail has begun to spread rapidly. Although due to limitations in construction technology and cost, there is currently no way to become a large ship, especially
It is the sail outfit of ocean-going ships.
But it has gained rapid popularity on small and medium-sized ships!
Especially on ships sailing along the coast and in rivers and lakes, its popularity is quite fast, because the biggest feature of this kind of sail is that it can sail against the wind and at high speed.
On the coasts and inland rivers, this ability to grab the wind is particularly important. Coupled with the good speed, this kind of sail has been widely welcomed as soon as it appeared.
At first, it was only used by official ships such as the Navy and the Postal Service, but soon a large number of civilian ships followed, especially those shipping companies that were in urgent need of new ships.
In order to compete, these shipping companies need ships with better performance!
In response to this demand, many shipyards have designed specialized ship types, including coastal freight, coastal passenger transport, inland water freight, inland water passenger transport, fishing boats, etc., and even some ocean-going ship types.
They can produce any ship type that requires wind tacking and speed.
Yangtze River Shipping Company is one of them. As the earliest and largest inland waterway passenger transport company in China, their slogan is to focus on inland waterway passenger transport and deliver passengers to their destinations with the fastest speed and the most comfortable service.
Therefore, the interest in this new type of ship is also very great. When this type of ship first came out, they started to purchase several ships, and then they got out of hand. Up to now, they have equipped at least fifty ships for inland water use.
, different types of multi-masted schooners used for coastal voyages.
But these are just ordinary multi-masted schooners!
The Moon Palace is not an ordinary multi-masted schooner, but a giant, floating palace on the sea!
This ship is the flagship of the new generation of the Yangtze River Shipping Company. In order to maintain competitiveness and increase the company's reputation, its hull design cost a high price. Professors from the Department of Shipbuilding at the Royal Institute of Technology were invited to conduct conceptual design, and then they were hired by Dingsheng Shipyard at a high price.
Make a custom order.
Dingsheng Shipyard is currently the shipyard with the strongest technical capabilities in China and the most expensive charges.
Although the scale is not as large as Jiangnan Shipyard, its technical capabilities are the strongest, and the ship types it builds are basically trend-setting. Although Jiangnan Shipyard is larger in scale and has greater production capacity, it is not technologically advanced.
Is it still not as good as Dingsheng Shipyard?
This can be seen from the warship construction undertaken. The battleships currently in service and ordered by the navy are all ordered from Dingsheng Shipyard. As for Jiangnan Shipyard, it is still unable to build such a standard displacement.
It is a behemoth with a weight of more than 1,300 tons and a fully loaded combat displacement of more than 1,500 tons.
It is recognized that the performance of the boats built by Dingsheng is good, but it is also recognized that they are expensive.
In order to maintain its leading edge, especially the fastest shipping record, the Yangtze River Shipping Company spends huge sums of money. After all, they need ships that are not only big and luxurious, but also the fastest!
At present, the main passenger routes in the empire include the coastal route from Shanghai to Guangzhou and the inland river route from Shanghai to Jinling City.
Among them, the coastal route from Guangzhou to Shanghai is currently the busiest coastal route in the empire. It not only has many cargo ships, but also has a large number of passengers. It is also the route with the largest number of passengers, and is also the competition between many domestic shipping companies, large and small.
The most brutal coastal route.
The same is true for the inland waterway route from Jinling to Shanghai. It is also the busiest and most competitive inland waterway route.
The Moon Palace operates on these two routes, from Guangzhou to Shanghai, then to Jinling City, then from Jinling City to Shanghai, then to Guangzhou, and back and forth.
Therefore, the ship shape of the Yuegong is also a very typical Yangtze River ship shape.
What is the Yangtze River ship type?
That is, the draft is not as deep as that of ocean-going ships, but it is deeper than that of purely inland ships, somewhere in between.
This is because the Yangtze River, that is, the lower reaches of the Yangtze River from Jinling City to Shanghai, has relatively abundant water and a relatively deep channel. Not to mention ships of more than 800 tons, even the battleships of the Navy with extremely deep drafts,
They can all drive into the Yangtze River and run all the way to Jinling City.
This type of Yangtze River ship can meet the needs of sailing in the Yangtze River Basin and coastal waters at the same time. It can even sail on long seas when necessary. It is much easier to use than any sand ship. Of course, it is not without its shortcomings, that is, it cannot sail on the Yangtze River.
Navigation in the middle reaches and other inland rivers and lakes with relatively shallow water depth.
However, this has no impact on the Yuegong. Its route is limited to Jinling City to Guangzhou. At most, it will develop the northern coastal route in the future and will not go to other inland rivers.
In addition, the ship’s luxurious decoration is also a major feature!
Otherwise, we wouldn’t describe it as a palace floating on the sea!
Not to mention precious metal components such as gold and silver, other decoration materials are only as expensive as they come!
In the end, the cost of the Yuegong soared to more than 300,000 yuan. You must know that the hull cost of a merchant ship of the same tonnage is 50,000 to 60,000 yuan, while the military cruiser only costs more than 100,000 yuan. Of course, this
Does not include weapons costs.
It is just a single-wheel hull. The cost of Yuegong exceeds that of merchant ships and battleships. It is currently the most expensive hull in China with over 800 tons.
When such a ship comes to Shanghai, it will definitely bring many rich and powerful people. Even if they are not in the first class, those in the second class are very likely to be worth a lot of money.
So when they saw the Yuegong, the officials from the Huating County Investment Promotion Office pounced on it just like sharks that smelled the smell of blood.
Using their status as officials, they first communicated with the staff at the port. They boarded the ship when the ship had just docked and the passengers on the ship had not officially disembarked. Then they began to look for their prey.
Of the three people who boarded the ship first, one went to the second-class cabin, one went to the first-class cabin, and one was waiting at the exit of the disembarkation. The three of them divided their work and began to move quickly.
The person assigned to the second class cabin was Li Chun. Although his surname was Li, he had nothing to do with the Li family of the royal family. The Li family of the royal family did not have many clan members, because the Holy Emperor Li Xuan had been passed down alone for several generations, let alone brothers.
Now, there are only a few members of the Li family in the royal family, and there are no distant relatives at all.
Li Chun just came from an ordinary family. The surname Li did not bring him even the slightest help. He relied on his own hard study. This is how he studied for the imperial examination, and then passed the third-class doctorate in the Jiangxi Examination.
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In accordance with the principle of serving as an official in another place, Jiangxi natives were assigned to serve in Huating County. He is now a senior member of the Huating Industry and Commerce Department, with a rank starting from the eighth grade.
At this level, he is not considered a newcomer in the officialdom, but he cannot be called a high-ranking official either. In the officialdom, he belongs to the ranks of low-level officials.
In the Tang Dynasty, there were no titles such as officials or civil servants. They were all officials. The difference was only high-level officials, mid-level officials, and low-level officials. Basically, the third rank and above were high-ranking officials, the fourth to seventh ranks were mid-level officials, and the eighth and ninth ranks were
He is a low-level official.
Twenty-six-year-old Li Chun naturally still has ambitions for the future, so he cherishes this opportunity to be transferred to the investment promotion office.